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Message: [QUOTE="tommy, post: 3458158, member: 8833"] [HEADING=1][/HEADING] [HEADING=1][/HEADING] [HEADING=1][URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident[/URL][/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Public outrage, "Unofficial" Test and Sehwag's ban[[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident&action=edit&section=2']edit[/URL]][/HEADING] There was a huge outrage in India where protestors took to the streets and burnt effigies of Denness. The matter was raised in the Indian parliament, the popular press termed Denness a racist, and the ICC was accused of discriminating against the emerging [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World']Third World[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-9'][9][/URL] The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Control_for_Cricket_in_India']Board of Control for Cricket in India[/URL] (BCCI) threatened to call off its tour of South Africa unless Denness was replaced as match referee for the third Test, scheduled for 23-27 November at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperSport_Park']SuperSport Park[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion,_Gauteng']Centurion[/URL]. The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cricket_Council']International Cricket Council[/URL](ICC) supported Denness[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-10'][10][/URL] but the South African board sided with the BCCI's position[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-11'][11][/URL] and the two teams played an "unofficial" Test instead. Denness, who was not even allowed to enter the stadium, was replaced as match referee by the South African [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Lindsay']Denis Lindsay[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-12'][12][/URL] Consequently, the ICC declared the match to be "unofficial" and instead classified it as a "friendly five-day match";[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-13'][13][/URL] the Test series was thus limited to the two matches already completed, with South Africa winning 1–0. The ICC upheld the ban on Sehwag for the subsequent Test, but overturned the bans on Tendulkar and Ganguly.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-14'][14][/URL] The subsequent [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_cricket_team']England[/URL] tour to India was placed in jeopardy when India picked Sehwag in the Test squad.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-15'][15][/URL] Subsequent to this development, the ICC issued a warning that any Test match with Sehwag in the Indian team would not be considered an official Test until Sehwag served his ban.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-16'][16][/URL] After negotiations with the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales_Cricket_Board']England and Wales Cricket Board[/URL] (ECB) and the ICC, and in the general interest of cricket, Sehwag was dropped from the team for the first Test against England.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-17'][17][/URL] [HEADING=1]After the incident[[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident&action=edit&section=3']edit[/URL]][/HEADING] Mike Denness served as match referee in only two more Tests and three more One Day Internationals. These were all in the series between [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_national_cricket_team']Pakistan[/URL] and the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team']West Indies[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharjah_Cricket_Association_Stadium']Sharjah[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates']United Arab Emirates[/URL], during January and February 2002. He retired as a match referee for health reasons, and died in 2013 from cancer. An ICC Disputes Resolution Committee hearing headed by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Beloff']Michael Beloff[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel']QC[/URL], the then Chairman of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, was scheduled to hear the case on 6–7 June 2002. But the hearing was postponed a week before its scheduled date due to the ill-health and surgery plans of Denness.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-18'][18][/URL] The Resolution Committee never met to decide on the merits of the cases of Denness and the Indian team as the BCCI decided to forgo the case in view of Denness' heart surgery.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Denness_and_Indian_cricket_team_incident#cite_note-19'][19][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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